It's a familiar hazard of vacation time: While you're conspicuously absent, your colleagues in the office forget to water and fertilize the plants - often leaving behind nothing but a brownish skeleton. Whether a plant thrives or wastes absent depends above all on whether its roots get enough water and nutrients. Geophysicists at the University of Bonn possess now visualized such processes for the first time using electrical impedance tomography. The researchers possess now published their results in the scientific journal Biogeosciences.
Source: phys.org